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. MOLD POR IOIIMINO PLASTIC OR COMPOSITION TARGBIS'.

NO OOOOQO. PatentedApr. 12,1887.

Myer, oud/01@ @arief'g' UNITED STATES v PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK J. MOYER ANVD CHARLES A.

none, OF LOCKPORT, NEW YORK.

MOLD FOR FoRIvIINc PLASTIC on COMPOSITION TARcETs.

SPECIFICATION vforming part of Letters Patent No. 360,899, dated April 12, 1887.

Application filed July 8, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK J. MOYER and CHARLES A, HOAG, citizens of the United States, residing at Lockport, in the county of Niagara andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Molds for Forming `Plastic or Composition Targets; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a plan view of the two sections of the mold, and Fig. 2 a sectional elevation showing the two sections connected together.'

The present invention has relation to molds for forming'plastic or composition flying targets, and has a special reference to that class of targets provided with a tongue or stem adapted to be grasped by the jaw or clamp of the trap for the purpose of projecting it into the air.

The object of the invention is to construct a mold by which. the tongue or stem can be securely connected to the target during the process of forming it by having the tongue or stem embedded in the material thereof; and the invention Vconsists in a mold constructed substantially as shown in the drawings, and hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A B repre sent the two sections of the mold, thel lower section,` A, taking the shape to which the target is to be, the shape and configuration of thevmold depending entirely on the form of the target. It has, however, a convex inner surface, b, the central portion thereof forming a support for one end of the stem of the target' to retain it in a true horizontal line while the heated composition is lpoured into the mold, thus insuring the stems of the targets to be on Serial No. 207,475. (No model.) y

one or both of themoldsections having a recess or depression, a, in which the projecting end of thel tongue or stem of the target is seated. 4These recesses or depressions are of a form or shape to conform to that of the projecting end of the tongue or stem in which it is seated.

The mold-section A is provided with a cir- 'cumferential iiange or support, c, upon which rests the section B, to hold in position the outer end of the tongue or stem of the target.

When the two sections of the mold are placed together and the tongue or stem in position, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and the heated composition, which is in a'liquid form, poured onto the mold-section A and allowed to cool and harden by being chilled-by the metallic surface of the mold, said mold is inverted and the material not chilled allowed to run out, thus leaving a shell with the tongue or stem connected thereto, which forms the complete target.

It is our purpose to have these molds in clusters of any suitable number, each cluster being supported on trunnions,to enable them to be conveniently inverted.

Having now fully described our invention, whatwe claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a mold for forming plastic or composition targets of that class provided with a tongue or stem, the combination,with a moldsection taking the shape of the target to be formed and provided with means for supporting at or near its center and in a horizontal position the target stem or tongue, of asecond mold-section consisting of a coniningring,

the two sections adapted to be connected together, whereby the former section has its en- ICO nation with an upper mold-section consisting In testimony that We claim the above We lo of a confining-ring adapted to rest on the have hereunto subscribed our names in the ange or support, and one or both of the moldpresence of two Witnesses.

sections provided with t suitable recess or de- T pression for receiving and holding the outer og eud of the stem or tongue, While the inner end J thereof is supported by the convex central Witnesses: portion of the lower section, substantially as C. H. FREEMAN, and for the purpose specified. S. 7. DEMPSEY. 

